Sex, drugs, but little rock ‘n’ roll in ‘Taking Woodstock’

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Forty years ago, when Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane et al took to the makeshift stage in a cow field in the Catskills, Lee was 14 years old and still living in his native Taiwan.

James Schamus, his long-time producer and screenwriter, was just nine.

Both were a long way from what the movie calls “the center of the universe.”

Perhaps that’s why “Taking Woodstock” shies away from the main stage and the big names.

Instead, it focuses on Elliot Teichberg (Demetri Martin), a young man who quits Greenwich Village to help his parents keep open their failing Bethel motel, El Monaco.

Elliot is resourceful enough to become Bethel’s youngest director of the chamber of commerce, but between his mom’s penny-pinching and his dad’s depression, it looks like El Monaco will be lucky to last through the summer.